Package: arpack Severity: important
arpack copyright notice at http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/a/arpack/current/copyright, which states it is a public-domain software is incorrect. According to the software download page, http://www.caam.rice.edu/software/ARPACK/, it is licensed under a "RiceBSD" license. Further, this license is considered non-free (and possibly in violation of DFSG), because of a clause that requires contacting the authors when the project is used in a project other than GNU Octave or Fedora (as far as I know), and because of this requirement, it is also GPL-incompatible, although it looks as though this by itself isn't a problem so far. Further discussions can be found at: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=214967 and https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=234191 Regards, Andrzej -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
